Manuel Fernandez AKA Manny, AKA Raging Bull hails from San Jose, CA, Manny is known to be a professional wrestler and claims to be a Navy SEAL that served in Vietnam. Manny has numerous articles and videos with his claims.

If you look at the interview Manny is questioned regarding his claims as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. He claims he was there during Operation Enduring Wind (which was actually Operation Frequent Wind which was carried out on 29–30 April 1975). Just to be clear the last remaining SEALs in Vietnam left in 1972.

In the video below you can fast forward to 1:40 which talks about his SEAL days and it ends on 2:16:

****WARNING**** A lot of foul language, so if you have your kids around ask them to leave or learn a hard lesson in life.

Poor Manny his SEAL experiences has given him numerous health problems to include PTSD, being exposed to Agent Orange. Wow, I am sad to know Manny has been fighting those demons. Manny we are here for you……………………….

There are plenty of other articles and Facebook pages regarding Manny being a Navy SEAL and having fought in Vietnam, there would be way too many of Manny’s to post (did you like what I did there? Many of Manny’s, just in case you missed it).

OK, at Military Phonies our math doesn’t seem to be working

Vietnam War 1955 – 1975

SEALs in Vietnam 1965 and 1972

Manny in Vietnam 1975

Do we mulitply it by something or divide it by π (Pi)?

Military Phonies feels that things are not adding up so we started our investigation.

ACTIONS CONDUCTED BY MILITARY PHONIES

After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives and checking the UDT/SEAL database we found that there is NO record of Manuel Fernandez ever being or training to become a Navy SEAL.

Manuel Fernandez’s records were requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Holy crap, Manny’s summary sheets shows that he served in the U.S. Navy Reserves for 1 year, 9 months, 13 days (12/17/74-9/30/76), by Military Phonies math, when Manny joined the Reserves he would have 4 months and 13 days to go to boot camp, then complete BUD/S, get assigned to a SEAL Team and join a platoon to be participate in “Operation Frequent Wind” (SEALs were not part of that operation). WOW, that would be amazing but sad to say the “Raging Bull” is now the “Raging Bullshitter”. He got out as an E-1 (Fireman Recruit), schooling was listed as Pump Repair. He never attended BUD/S, was never assigned to a SEAL Team, never deployed to Vietnam, and was not part of Operation Enduring Wind. But he did have some cool hair to match that cheesy mustache….

This is the administrator of the Ragin’ Bull’s page. There has been some comments and posts from people who are not fans of the page spreading a fake article about Manny’s military service. It was started by a disgruntled wrestler who has issues with Mr. Fernandez. That will not be tolerated on this page and anyone spamming and making derogatory remarks will be banned and the comments will be deleted.
This a page that wrestling fans can enjoy the wrestling past with articles, pictures, and videos from the territory days of the business. Not people with personal vendettas. Please respect the people that enjoy the content here and stay tuned for more content soon. Thank you.
-William

Apparently you guys are a disgruntled wrestler according to the administrator of his page.

Apparently you haven’t even read this blog, we could careless about his wrestling career. We only exposed his lies about serving as a Navy SEAL, serving in Vietnam and being a combat veteran. Manny will forever be known as a fake, a fraud and a liar. Let me guess your administrator is Manny? It seems like you don’t care that Manny has disrespected the US Military, the SEAL Teams, Vietnam veterans and true combat veterans.

Excellent work exposing his years of lying about his service. I don’t know how tough SEAL selection was in the 1970s, but I’d assume it was of a similar difficulty to the stories you hear now about Hell Week and so on. Here’s what Manny had to say about it in an interview from about 10 years ago:

“I found out the navy was kind of boring so I got into some trouble with the navy in the barracks with the master at arms slapping people around so they was going to kick me out but they gave me a chance to try out for the Seals and I took the course, and basically it’s just a floating course and how long you can float and tread water in a pool and stuff like that which I used to swim all my life, my mom taught me so it wasn’t too hard”

Who knew selection for elite special forces was just floating and treading water in a pool? Not me.

He who is without sin may he cast the first stone …
Look folks exposing him is one thing and if so the job is done BUT He is a man nonetheless…
MAY GOD BLESS MANNY FERNANDEZ AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL THE EARTH!!!

Got a question. You say Manny never served in Vietnam, however your own evidence places him on the USS Hancock while it was assigned to Vietnam during operation frequent wind. He may not have been a seal, but according to your own evidence he was in Vietnam. Not starting anything, but when you call someone out be right. and he did not train for pump repair until after his return.

Operation frequent wind was in 1975. according to histiry.com even the service record of the USS Hancock states that it was a part of frequent wind in 1975. although our direct involvement ended in 1973 we were evacuating in 1975. not saying he fired a single shot just that he was there according to history and your records

Ok you reread. the fpo stands for federal post office. when a military person deploys his mail must be mailed to an apo or fpo. at that point the military postal service picks it up and delivers it to the deployed person. there is a typo because according to your statement he was on the Hancock and the Kansas city at the same time. date transitioned is when he got his orders. date reported is when he actually set foot on the ship.his record shows he was on the Hancock from 6 April to 23 December. he reported to the Kansas city in January. he was transitioned out of California in march 1975. as i said, i can not defend any claims of being in the navy seals, however these records prove he was on the USS Hancock during operation frequent wind

Let’s be blunt about the Raging Bull Manny Fernandez he has been claiming he has PTSD, for years, now how that is possible without being in combat is anyone’s guess. His favorite routine is to sell half of his meds from the VA or trade them for meth. He carries doctored VA papers to get housing and other benefits. He has used his claims of being a Navy Seal with PTSD to get out of jail for years. Last year he was popped for driving a stolen car in Texas and used his claims of being a Seal to stay out of prison.